Idiot
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Idiot
19.99 €
The Idiot (1868) was the second work in Dostoevsky's "Great Pentateuch," the name given to five of his most ambitious novels, including Crime and Punishment (1866), The Possessed (1872), The Adolescent (1875), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Fyodor Mikhailovich wrote The Idiot abroad, in Europe: there, the writer, suffering from epileptic seizures, hoped to improve his health and, moreover, escape his creditors.
Work on the manuscript took a long time; at times, the author remained so dissatisfied with what he had written that he destroyed completed sections and began writing them anew. Ultimately, the writer conceived the idea of "portraying a positively wonderful man." The resulting character of Prince Myshkin incorporated elements of Charles Dickens's Pickwick and Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote. Generous, naive, and reflective, Myshkin seems out of place among important, serious, and often downright immoral people. Dostoevsky's contemporaries criticized "The Idiot," but the novel was appreciated by subsequent generations.
Today, "The Idiot" is translated into various languages, reprinted in numerous editions, and performed in theaters. In this edition, the text of the novel about this remarkable individual is embellished with illustrations by the Soviet and Russian artist, graphic artist, and teacher Dementy Alekseevich Shmarinov (1907–1999).
Work on the manuscript took a long time; at times, the author remained so dissatisfied with what he had written that he destroyed completed sections and began writing them anew. Ultimately, the writer conceived the idea of "portraying a positively wonderful man." The resulting character of Prince Myshkin incorporated elements of Charles Dickens's Pickwick and Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote. Generous, naive, and reflective, Myshkin seems out of place among important, serious, and often downright immoral people. Dostoevsky's contemporaries criticized "The Idiot," but the novel was appreciated by subsequent generations.
Today, "The Idiot" is translated into various languages, reprinted in numerous editions, and performed in theaters. In this edition, the text of the novel about this remarkable individual is embellished with illustrations by the Soviet and Russian artist, graphic artist, and teacher Dementy Alekseevich Shmarinov (1907–1999).
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- All books in the series Library of World Literature